Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1938 — Page 1

JxxWl. No. 158.

wO Are Drowned Wn Japan Floods, f Hundreds Missing

■ Island Os Japan Is Hept By Storms And lods; More Than Hurt. (I|.|>l!E\ ' H TIMS , Tii’iisitiy. July * (U.R) ial ,i. Ills ,l "“ I ¥ ain Japim nor,h south of K-bo neared i'“iay work<1 d.-vastat.-d areas for is ( ,f missing persons. K,ui.-i (lamape and snffer- .... w» ■ in the prefecture of Hyogo indXumi t tie > ny of Kobe, which , ~iiimuni< alien with tile long time after the service. figures issued at Osaka the known death toll in at 411. Os this ' «.f,. known dead at at Hanshin and 220 at the prefecture, previous official announceaccounted 181 known deaO l other provinces. • message front the Unitcorrespondent in Kobe. early today when comby telephone was resaid only five foreigners so far to lie among there. These were a Freni nan, a Portuguese, a Gerrnanjnd two others of unstated natMality. My s'reels in Kobe were floodmains were broken, authorities were arranging er ergency supplies of drinking followed in the wake of From Ibaraki prefecof Tokyo. 128 infectious were reported, including and dysentery. Thousands were homeless and damage was at millions of dollars, s'.oted last week with rain in the north and slowly through the prefecture» of Saitama, Chiba. Tochici, ON PAGE FIVE) ■th claims BERNE WOMAN .Mrs. Reuben Schirfdler Das Tuesday At Home I Near Berne Aldine Schindler, 4S. wife of ' Schindler, died at 8:10 p. nt. i at her home two miles. Berne. She had been ill of dropsy and heart - used was born in French March 17. 1890, the daughMaß John and Lydia NeuhauserSim married Reuoen Scliin Mildred, and one son, BM'" cP’P-sons. Ornelle and and one stepdaughter. Florat home; the mother, livand the following brosisters: Henry and Ella gB ' both of Berne; Albert, of |B' I mi Amstutz and Mrs. Ida both "I Fort Wayne; Mrs. |MB Rulll ' l,f Canton - O.; Menno of Munroe; Eza Amstutz. Reuben Amstutz, of : Loren Amstutz, of OrI was a member of the West tnary church. services will be held at |B'XHNrE|> ON’ PAGE SIX) i) — ■ ne Drug Store Plans New Front Kohne, proprietor of " ,1( ‘ Drug store, announced hat a new modernistic front ilw| alled at his store. The ' )e installed immediately.' fMPERATURE READINGS I °crat THERMOMETER ■Ba m. 74 2:00 p.m 96 a "' 79 3:00 p.m. .. .98 | WEATHER f air tonight, Thurs■nd Mrtly Cl ° Udy ' Probably ■ndershowers in north po * SOmew hat warmer Thursin south portion.

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I Pie for President ■ .Josephine La Franier Cherry pie for President Roosevelt. The donor is Josephine La I Franier, queen of the national I cherry festival at Traverse City, Mich. Miss La Franier is shown at Grand Rapids en route to Washington to make the presentation. COUNTY BOARD LETS CONTRACT — Commissioners Award Contracts For County Infirmary Supplies The county commissioners this afternoon awarded the contracts for the furnishing of supplies to the county infirmary for the next quarter. They were all given to the low bidders. The bids were: Bread: Rhodes Bakery, Geneva, I seven cents: Decatur Bakery, eight I cents; Amstutz Bakery Beine B’4 cents. Tobacco: Deitch Grocery, Decatur, SB4; Home Grocery, Decatur, $83.19. Groceries: Sprunger Lehman, i Berne; $154.75; 'Home Grocery, $155.89; Deitsch Grocery, Decatur I $158.48. Dry Goods: Niblick Store, Decatur, $61.41; Boston Store, Decatur. $64.60. o Sprunger Named To Berne School Board Hiram Sprunger, manager of the Berne Overall and Shirt company, Tuesday night was elected to the Berne school board, succeeding Christ Stengel. The election, for a three-year term, was made by the Berne town council. o ADAMS COUNTY NATIVE DIES Edward Dirkson Dies Tuesday At Van Wert Hospital Edward Dirkson, 75, native of Ad'ams county, died Tuesday at the Van Wert county, Ohio hospital. Death was attributed to a kidney ailment and complications. ' The deceased was born in this ccunty July 8, 1964 the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dirkson. His wife preceded him in death several years ago. For the past 18 years he had been living in Willshire, Ohio and vicinity. At the time of his death he had been making his home with a daughter, Mrs. Edward Gunsett, in Willshire. Surviving, besides the daughter, is a son. Paul of Herrod, Ohio. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 12:30 o’clock (CST) at the home of the daughter and at 1 o’clock at the Schumin, Ohio Lutheran church of which he was a memlber. Burial will be made in the church cemetery.

LEGION PLANS DISTRICT MEET HERE JULY 13 Adams Post To Be Host To District Meeting Os Legionnaires Plans for the fourth district con- ' vent ion of the American Legion, to : be held here Wednesday, July 13, ‘are rapidly nearing completion, it . was announced today by members I of Adams Post No. 43, convention . host. Approximately 200 veterans from | 21 posts in the district are expect-1 led to attend the sessions of the. convention, which opens in the 'evening at 6:30 o’clock with a ban-1 ! quet at the Knights of Pythias ' home on Third street. Registration will be open in the I I Legion home on Madison street, 1 i prior to the banquet. Notables To Speak Prominent I-egion notables are' expected to be in attendance at the ’ convention and speak at the sessions. Heading the list of speakers will be Glen R. Hillis, of Kokomo, I past national executive and present i i child welfare Legion chairman. Richard Urbine, of Fort Wayne, i who was elected governor of the Hoosier Boys’ State, recently held at Indianapolis will also deliver a short talk. Invitations have been sent to i Rocky Rhoades, state Legiou com- ' wander and William Sayer, state i adjutant, as well as other state Legion officials. j The business meeting, immediate I !y following the banquet, will be I conducted by Carl H. Graham, fourth district chairman, and the memorial service for Legionnaires who have died during the past year, will be conducted by the Rev. D. L. Faurote, of Arvilla, district chaplain. Frank Foote, of Albion, memorial chairman, will be tn charge. Ixical Legionnaires have been requested to purchase banquet ticki £ ts as early as possible, in order to , furnish those in charge with an ’estimate of the number who will attend. The tickets may be secured -by contacting V. J. Bormann, registration chairman. This is to be the final district meeting of the organization before ICONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) fl, A.STUCKEY IS LOW BIDDER Awarded Contract By City For Materials For Acker Sewer R. A. Stuckey was the low bidder on materials for the proposed Acker sewer. The bids were opened at the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday night. Mr. Stuckey's bid was $4,564.31. Another bid of $5,351.50 was submitted by the Decatur Lumber Company. The contract was awarded today by the street and ■ sewer committee of the city coun- ' cil in conjunction with the civil works commissioner to Mr. StucThe labor is to be furnished by the WPA- , The specifications call for the beginning of the sewer in the alley ' west of Dierkes street at the terminus of another sewer about four ! lots north of Melbers street. It will extend north across Washington street and North Second street to a point in the Acker properties, where it will turn east to empty in the St. Mary's river across U. S. highway 27. > A report from the state board of health was given at the counicil meeting showing the approval of the plans and specifications for I the Charles Lamlin, Brunner and Acker sewers. They were approved and placed on file. A petition for a sewer was filed by Effie Patton and other property owners along High. Grant and (CONTINUER PAGE MX) — 0 Annual Moose Picnic Here Sunday, July 17 The annual Moose picnic for members and their families will be . held Sunday. July 17, at Sun Set i park, east of Decatur. The picinc will be held in the ,' afternoon and a special program for the entertainment of the children will be given. Refreshments will also be served the children free of : charge. II The committee is maiking ari rangements for the event and the i members of the lodge are cordially j Invited to attend the outing

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 6, 1938.

Stolen Sink Is Recovered Here The sink, first reported to be a piece of zinc, which was taken from the rear of the City Confectionery, Tuesday afternoon, was recovered I by Chief of Police Sephus MelchL I Inter in the day. The Fort Wayne man, whom J Chief Melchl apprehended, asserted that he thought the plumbing fixture was thrown away and that he had picked it up to sell for junk. No | charges were filed following the man's assertion. J o UNITED FRONT DV DEMOCRATS AT CONVENTION II Endorsement Os Van Nuys For Senator Clears The Way Indianapolis, July 6. —<U.R> —IndiI ana's Democratic leaders tomorrow will welcome Senator Frederick i Van Nuys back into the fold after ■ a year of internal dissension, re-' j nominate him on the first ballot at j the state convention Tuesday, and >. , enter the 1938 campaign with a united front. The senator accepted with alacrity Gov. M. Clifford Townsend's “invitation” for him to i abandon his proposed independent . candidacy and present his name . to the state convention with the . assurance that he would not be opposed by the statehouse ma- ‘ chine. This was equivalent to . handing him renomination, which \ the United Press learned had been , determined in advance. i From his vacation cottage at i Walloon Lake, Mich., Van Nuys declined to make a formal state-. ’ ment on his attitude toward a i reconciliation with Townsend, who : last August virtually read him out . lof the party, ostensibly for oposing President Roosevelt on supreme court reform. ' i The statement, he said, will be ‘saved until his arrival in Indianapolis, possibly to be given out in 1 concert with the Democratic chief- ’ i tains at the harmony session. This i meeting, the United Press was in- ' formed, will settle some delicate ' questions arising from the long estrangement of the senator and governor. Attending the peace pipe conference will be: Governor Townsend, in person; Van Nuys; Dick Heller ' the governor’s executive secre- ; Itary; Frank McHale, national com-1 Umitteeman; Alex N. Pursley, fifth, district chairman and close Town-, send advisor; Virgil M. Simmons, | fourth district chairman; state; chairman Omer Stokes Jackson; Dan Tobin, international president j of the Teamsters and Chauffeurs union; E. Kirk McKinney and Reginald Sullivan, close friends of I Van Nuys; Bowman Elder, a Townsend adviser, and possibly several others. This gathering is expected to ' settle definitely the state conven- ■ j tion procedure. ■, No difficulty was expected in ar- ;' ranging Van Nuys' nomination on . | the first ballot since Townsend's organization controls an estimatI ed 85 per cent of the delegates, ■ 'and two of the three potential sen- ; (CONTINUED <>N PAGE FIVE) oS2OO DAMAGE SUIT UN FILE I Damage Suit Results From Auto-Truck Collision A suit asking damages of s2ooi has been filed in the Adams circuit j court by Clyde C. Noffsinger against' William Patterson for an automo-' bile-truck accident December 8j about a mile west of Willehire, Ohio. The plaintiff was operating a truck driving west and the defend-' ant an automobile driving east, according to the complaint. The plaintiff alleged the automobile was driven “at a high and dangerous rate of speed to-wit: forty miles per hour.” It is also alleged ' that t)ie plaintiff “carelessly and nei gligently failed and retimed to yield L sufficient portion of the north side of the highway traveled to permit i the plaintiff to meet and pass the ■ defendant on the left side of the i defendant’s automobile,” As the reI suit it was said the defendant oper--1 ated his car “over, against and upon the plaintiff’s truck.” Damages to the truck as the rei suit of the accident were set at S2OU r The complaint does not set out any personal damages.

NATIONS MEET TOPLAN AID TO REFUGEES Delegates Os 32 Nations Meet At Request Os Roosevelt (By United Press) At the invitation of President Roosevelt, delegates of 32 nations met at Evian, France, today to consider means of opening their I borders to destitute refugees, lu-1 1 eluding homeless Jews from Germany and Austria. ' Os the 32 nations, 21 were from North and South America, traditional refuge of the oppressed. 1 Germany was not represented, nor 1 was Italy. Jewish leaders urged the conferi ence to persuade Great Britain to ' open Palestine to more extensive j Jewish settlement in the ancient ■ cradle of their race. Even as the ’ delegates met, however, news was received from Palestine of further grave disorders between Arabs and j Jews, so that it seemed unlikely J Britain would want to antagonize ' the Arabs further by admitting . more Jews. The problem of aiding refugees from war-torn Spain also was before the conference. It was considered almost certain that if the Insurgents capture Valencia and then force the capitulation of Barcelona or come to terms with the Catalonians, ending the war, there will be thousands of loyalists at-: tempting to flee abroad. The insurgent drive on Valencia continued its seemingly inevitable I i course, the nationalists driving steadily down the eastern coast,, methodically capturhig towns and consolidating for renewed thrusts. In the Orient, the undeclared war ; between Japan and China ended its first year and it was estimated that the war so far' has cost more than 1.000,000 lives, as well as incalculable destruction. The Japanese, having captured | Hukow on the Yangtse river, open-j ed a fierce three-point drive to crush the last Chinese resistance' in the defense of Hankow, tb»i temporary capital. Japanese airplanes blasted away for the troops, meeting with little resistance be-, cause the best of China’s first-line' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) DELAY ACTION ! ON BOND ISSUE Board Os Commissioners Delays Action On Dredge Bonds The county commissioners today determined not to take action at this session on the petition for them to issue $133,000 in bonds paying for' the cost of dredging the Wabash river in addition to that collected in cash from the property owners. The commissioners have ‘been ordered to issue the bonds by Special Judge Henry F. Kieter, but are exhausting every effort in an attempt to avoid the action. The county was one of the original remonstrators against the proposed dredging and has cat tied the case to the state supreme court. | However, in face of the court order the commissioners have (been informed that they face possible jail sentence on contempt of court proceedings if they definitely act against the issuance of bonds. | The bond petition filed by Roscoe Wheat, attorney for the petitioners, , contained a number of errors and the commissioners refused to act i until these were corrected. This will delay proceedings until the next monthly meeting in August. It was first presented at the June meeting ' of the commissioners. 1 In the meantime, attorneys in the i suit brought against the commissioners to prevent the commisslon(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Escape Injury As Boat Catches Fire Will Bowers, Virgil Krick and ! Lawrence Buffenbarger, of this I city, and Mr. Bower's two and onehalf year old son, Bill, had a harrowing experience at Sylvan Lake, Rome City on Monday when their motorboat caught fire. The men and young lad were taken from the boat before any received serious injuries, however, and the boat was towed to shore. Several fire extinguishers were exhausted to no avail and neighbors in motorboats and rowboats assisted the local people to shore. The boat is thought to be badly damaged.

ORGANIZATION DILL PASSAGE SOUGHT AGAIN President To Make Campaign Issue Os Reorganization Bill Washington, July 6.— |(U.R> — President Roosevelt led the faithful today Into another battle sor 1 enactment of a government reor-1 ganization bill which congress rejected this year in a rebellion of house Democrats. By a few words, uttered in his regular press conference, Mr. Roosevelt rammed the reorganiza- : tion bill into the 1938 campaign! close to the top of the list of issues , which he is expected to present ' to voters of his trans-continental journey beginning July 7. His plans were revealed after : his conference yesterday with chairman Louis Brownlow and other members of the committee 1 which, in January, 1936, recommended to him the reorganization ! program which he immediately submitted to congress. Observers judged that Mr. Roosevelt’s new insistence upon the bill I disposed cf any belief which may ■ have gained currency that new deal bumps during the sessions of the 75th congress would materially alter the general administration program. He revealed that he feels congress must put the execu- 1 tive branch of government on what supporters of the bill call a business basis. And he intends to present to the people and to con-1 gress again substantially the same reorganization proposals which were rejected by the house on April 8, although the president in- : dicated that he would be agreeable to moderate compromise. He is convinced that the country wants a reorganization act. The decision to press again and : apparently immediately for the bitterly disputed legislation will I have its first repercussions in primary campaigns where Democrats running as 100 per cent new deal-1 'ers unquestionably will espouse the legislation and attempt to ’ force their more lukewarm oppon-1 lents to take a position. It pre-> sumably is the administration expectation that sufficient pledges of support will be obtained among house nominees to insure a formally committed majority for the j bill in the congress which will assemble next January. Reorganization of executive de- j partments must be won in congress if it is to be achieved at all. |The house in 1937 passed piece-1 i meal reorganization legislation in ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O Ralph Martin Named Highway Assistant Ralph Martin, a county highway department truck driver, wae elevated to the position as county assistI ant road superintendent for the second district. He fills the vacancy created -by the recent death of Herman Uleman. The appointment was i made late Tuesday evening by the ! board of county commissionere. Dan Neireiter was employed as a < part time truck driver to work when the WPA works. THEATER TEST CASE DELAYED “Bank Night” Test Case Is Postponed To Friday, July 15 1 The “bank night” test case, arising out of the weekly prize award-! I ing at the Adams theater here, faii--1 ed to materialize this morning in! ! John T. Kelly’s justice of peace court as the prosecution was grant- j ed a continuance until Friday, July; 15. Prosecutor Arthur E. Voglewede asked for the continuance upon the motion that a state’s witness, a re-1 cent winner of the -bank night a-, ward money, could not be subpoen- j aed for today's trial. Public interest has been running l high in the so-termed test case of ’ the awarding tn which the prosecu-, tion has charged I. A. and Roy Kai-1 ver, owners and managers of the ] Adams and Madison theaters here “acting as agents so ra lottery.” The Kalvers, when arraigned on ! the charge last week, plead not , guilty and posted bonds of $25 each. The affidavit charging the lottery . was signed by Jesse Leßrun, owu- • er and operator of the Cort theater here.

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Rebels May Free Him 1 w ! / Igk ’ ■4 - r ' Ji* At J. H. Jenkins Held a prisoner by Spanish insurgents, J. H. Jenkins, of Seattle, former teaching fellow in sociology at the university of Washington. - may be freed in a possible exchange with the Barcelona gov- | ernment. Jenkins enlisted in the Loyalist forces this year from New i York where he had gone to attend | i a new school of social research, ' ; because, as his wife says, “Somebody has to stop Hitler and Musso- ] lini and the diplomats won’t do it.” i REDUCED RATE I IS APPROVED Public Service Commission Approves Lower Rural Light Rate ! The Indiana public service comj mission granted immediate approval of the reduced rural electric light rates as petitioned for by the i city light and power plant. The petitions were filed last Thursday by city attorney John L, I DeVoss and certified copies of the | approval were received yesterday by Mayor A. R. Holthouse. The approvals were filed with the coun|cil last evening and an ordinance I passed placing the rates in effect jwith the July meter readings. The rural light rate is reduced I from six cents to five cents per kilowatt. This is one of the lowest rural light rates in the coun- ! try. Other rural rates, including power, cooking and heating schedules remain the same. The five cent rate applies for :the first 200 KWH’s per month. The rate then drops to four and one-half cents per kilowatt. The minimum charge in the rural terri(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 G. E. Officials To Visit Local Plant — Neil Currie, Jr., general manager I and other officials of the General I Electric Company of Fort Wayne. | will visit the Decatur works Thursday afternoon. The G. E. officials will be the , guests of E. W. Lankenau, superin- : tendent of the local plant A meeting will be held at the club rooms. A dinner will Ibe served to the Fort. | Wayne men at the Elks’ home, folj lowing the meeting. o Immediate Action Is Demanded On Garbage Problem Mayor A. R. Holthouse today call- . ed a meeting of the street and sew- | er committee to take immediate aci tion on the garbage hauling problem. | “Something must be done to reI ileve the situation and get the garj bage hauled away. Housewives are calling the city hall, department 'heads, members of the council and ,my residence and office, stating that the garbage has not been hauled away. It is an unsanitary condition and action must be taken, one ! way or the other” the mayor was quoted as saying. The council will receive bids in • August for the hauling of garbage. The present contract runs until ' September 1. The committee was ■ investigating the matter this atter- ‘ noon and hope to bring about a clean-up of the gailbage cans, __

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All-Stars Score 4-1 Victory Today In Sixth Annual Game As Vander Meer Stars. AMERICANS ERR Crosley Field, Cincinnati. 0., July 6 The National League AllStars, backing splendid hurling with sensational defensive play, scored a 4-1 victory over the American League All-Stars in the sixth annual game, played at Crosley Field this afternoon. In direct contrast to the National's splendid defensive play, the American leaguers tossed in four errors to aid the senior representatives to score three of their four runs. Johnny Vander Meer, rookh southpaw huiler of the Cincinnati Reds, who made baseball history in recent weeks by twirling two consecutive no-hit, no-run games, hurled the first three innings for the winners, allowing only one hit, a sharp single by Joe Cronin, shortstop and manager of the Boston Red Sox. Bill Lee, Chicago Cubs, held the American All-Stars well in check for the nex hree innings, Mace Brown of Pittsburgh allowing the i only American score in the ninth inning on Di Maggio’s single and I Cronin’s double. The Nationals scored in the first inning. Hack, first batter, singled and advanced to third when Herman's grounder rolled through Cronin for an error. Hack scored on Medwick’s long fly. The Nationals added their second run in the fourth on Ott’s triple and Lombardi’s single. The final runs scored in the seventh. McCormick singled. Durocher laid , down a bunt and beat it out for a hit. When Foxx threw wildly on the play, both runners advanced and both scored when Di Maggio's return throw to the infield went wild. Gomez hurled the first three innings for the Americans, followed by Allen, and Grove, who hurled the final three frames. Score by innings: RHE American 000 000 001—1 7 4 National 100 100 20x—4 8 0 Gomez, Allen, Grove and Dickey; Vander Meer, Lee, Brown and Loraba rdi. Pre-Game Story Cincinnati, 0.. July 6 — (U.R) — Baseball's all-star circus, second only to the world series in color, drama and popular appeal, has its sixth renewal today with the best players of the National and American leagues arrayed against each other in a grudge battle before a partisan National league throng of 28,000. Only the modest confines of Crosley Field prevent all baseball records being broken. Nearly 150.000 persons made application for tickets. The forecast was for fair weather. Flaming youth, speed and the determination of the underdog were on the side of the National league. Experience, power and the confidence of the favorite were on the side of the American league. On the gamblers’ scale, the American league's assets weighed j heaviest and made it an 8-5 betting favorite. But the sentimental base(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O - HANK DEPOSITS SHOW INCREASE First State Bank Report Shows Increase In Deposits ~i The June ,3t()| report of the First! ■ State Bank of this city, shows total deposits of $2,189,395.32. This is an increase over the previous period. ■ and indicates a strong financial condition among the patrons of tha Ibank. Total assets are listed at $2,408,- : 383.14, of which more than $1,500,000 is composed of cash and bonds. ■ Loans and discounts amount to $9'23,960.10. The new banking house, furnltura and fixtures is listed at $28,558.99. The Ibank recently purchased ami moved into the building formerly occupied by the Old Adams County Bank. i The capital account is listed at ■ $218,987.82, including $7,655.12 of i undivided profits and $21,832.70 of reserves.